The High Court will today hand down an important judgment on whether the Home Office is meeting their duties to hold an effective investigation into the serious mistreatment and abuse of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) by officers of the private security...
The Home Office has agreed to review its ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy – a key plank of Theresa May’s hostile environment - and pay our clients compensation following successful legal action. In 2012 the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, decided that people granted limited...
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Before HM Coroner Emma Brown Birmingham and Solihull Coroners Court 50 Newton St, Birmingham B4 6NE Opens 10 June 2019 Scheduled for five – six days Marcus McGuire was 35 years old when he died on 24 April 2018. He was found unresponsive in his cell at HMP Birmingham and...
Before HM Assistant Coroner for Nottinghamshire, Ivan Cartwright The Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham NG1 2DT Starts 3 June 2019, expected to last 7 days 29 year old Shane Stroughton was found hanged in his cell on the induction unit of HMP Nottingham on 13 September 2017....
The High Court is to rule on whether the Home Office’s new ‘scheduling rule’ is incompatible with the international Convention implemented by the UK to combat the trafficking in human beings and whether the new rule discriminates against victims of trafficking who have made an...
The inquest opens today into the double shooting of Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy on 23 February 2014. Christine and Lucy were shot by John Lowe using shotguns that were removed and then returned by Surrey police seven months before the murders. The inquest...
On Friday 10 May 2019 the Court of Appeal will hear the application to appeal against the High Court’s decision to refuse a challenge to the legality of the Government’s powers to make Serious Shortage Protocols (SSPs) that would allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions for...
MA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/2710/2017); BB v Secretary of State for the Home Department (CO/382/2018). The High Court is to rule on whether the Home Office’s poor response to the appalling mistreatment of detainees at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, exposed...
The Law Society Gazette have published an article titled 'Home Truths' exploring the uneven response of the law to domestic violence. It considers some of the advances made in the context of inquests and civil claims against the state, with insight from Deighton Pierce Glynn’s...